Here's the full breakdown of the price changes Microsoft will make to subscriptions in each of the four regions.

Major Nelson recommends that those subscribers who would like to buy a subscription at the current price do so now, before the new pricing structure takes effect. Those who do resubscribe now will be able to purchase a one-year subscription for $39.99, a $20 discount on the new price.

Here's the full breakdown of the price changes Microsoft will make to subscriptions in each of the four regions.

Major Nelson recommends that those subscribers who would like to buy a subscription at the current price do so now, before the new pricing structure takes effect. Those who do resubscribe now will be able to purchase a one-year subscription for $39.99, a $20 discount on the new price.

Ugh, an extra $10 a year really isn't all that much in the grand scheme of things, but it will make me rethink whether I need a gold account. I just don't play as much multiplayer as I used to, and the other gold benefits are not worth it.

Even though one year has always been $60 in Canada (except on the rare occasion when places have a sale for $40) just the fact alone they're raising prices in general is really putting me off renewing my subscription.

Granted it is roughly $5 a month but personally other than playing the occasional music game online or needing help in Borderlands (damn you Crawmerex!) I don't really see how it's worth it to me personally.

Maybe when there's more features that make it worthwhile, I'll just keep that $60 and put it toward another game or something.

I couldn't care less. 60 bucks a year for playing every game I buy for the Xbox on LIVE with my friends is worth the price of admission. The extras like the new ESPN 3 stuff and Netflix are also worth the cash.

Maybe I'll just go buy 3 years worth of it now. Worse case I sell it off the friends for 50$ if I don;t want to subscribe anymore, best case I save 30$. But really, 30$ over three years makes the point seem moot.

Bullfuckingshit. There almost aren't enough things keeping me from paying for this fucking service already, I mean, I CAN PLAY PC GAMES ONLINE FOR FUCKING FREE - and Microsoft fucking cancels their FREE CONTENT so, WHERE THE FUCK DOES MY MONEY GO?

I'm curious if only the one month price is changing for Canada and the UK since there's no mention of 3 or 12 month prices. I still don't entirely understand why Live costs as much as it does already(let alone going up) when the online gaming connections still suck. I thought the point of paying to play online should be to ensure good connections but alas every game has less then ideal connections.

Even if the price increase doesn't affect me, it's still pretty lame to charge people more even if they don't use the extended features like LastFM, NetFlix, and ESPN(especially when people already pay for those services in some other capacity. Also Facebook and twitter are both just lame features which I assume get a relatively small amount of usage by most people.

All the services really needs to do is provide strong stable connections for online games, and I'm still waiting on that,

They must have something under the wraps for them to pull this brazen skullduggery.

If not, then well, we all know where the true revenue stream for Xbox comes from. They need to make up for all the lost accounts, and therefore the correlating revenue, from banning people for fleecing Halo: Reach.